Metonymy and pragmatic inferencing

In recent years, conceptual metonymy has been recognized as a cognitive phenomenon that is as fundamental as metaphor for reasoning and the construction of meaning. The thoroughly revised chapters in the present volume originated as presentations in a workshop organized by the editors for the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest in 2000. They constitute, according to an anonymous reviewer, "an interesting contribution to both cognitive linguistics and pragmatics." The contributions aim to bridge the gap, and encourage discussion, between cognitive linguists and scholars wor.

Year

2003

Language

English

Series

Pragmatics & beyond -- new. ser. v. 113

Publisher

John Benjamins Pub.

Editions

1

Pages

280

ISBN

9789027296443

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